Saturday, August 15, 2009

Culture

Mummy, Where Do Classic Video Games Come From?

3:30PM Luke Plunkett | After crying to heavens about the lack of an English-language version of classy French gaming mag Amusement, editor Abdel Bounane was kind enough to point us towards this gallery from the latest issue. No need for translation with these! More »
Media

Red Steel 2 GamesCom Video

3:00PM Brian Crecente | We knew Ubisoft’s Red Steel 2 was going to be playable at GamesCom, and this teaser trailer doesn’t tell us much more than that. More »
News

All Weekend, Valve’s Games Will Be Crazy Cheap

2:30PM Luke Plunkett | Valve are saying “to hell with third party Steam sales” this weekend, as their digital download store plays host to an in-house firesale, with Half-Life, Counter-Strike and Team Fortress products all going for a song. More »
News

July’s Top-Selling PlayStation Network, Xbox Live Arcade Games

1:30PM Luke Plunkett | There are sales charts for the US, sales charts for Japan, even sales charts for Britain, Australia and the PC, so why not for downloadable games on consoles? Why not indeed. So let’s take a look. More »
Hands On

Brink Impressions: It All Makes Sense Now

1:00PM Stephen Totilo | Splash Damage’s 2010 squad-shooter Brink wowed our Luke Plunkett at E3. Here at QuakeCon, a public demo of the game wowed several hundred more people. The game defies easy classification. It’s ambitious. More »
News

Bethesda Have “No Plans” For More Elder Scrolls

12:20PM Luke Plunkett | On this week’s instalment of No Plans Watch: Bethesda’s Todd Howard, speaking at QuakeCon 09 on the future of the Elder Scrolls series now that his company is officially done with Fallout 3. More »
Culture

A Blog For The Ladies…Who Date Gamers

11:20AM AJ Glasser | A former co-worker of mine started a blog for girlfriends of gamers. I’m hoping she’ll expand the scope—but for now, I get to be both her target audience and her audience’s target. More »
Culture

Madden Launch: It Happens Every Year

11:00AM Owen Good | Last night the Springfield, Oregon, Game Crazy treated about a dozen people to tailgate food and a Madden tournament. Despite the hype, the launch memories many of them shared had little to do with the highest-selling franchise of all time. More »
Culture

Eternal Sonata Manga Looks…Different

10:40AM AJ Glasser | I just now got around to reading the manga adaptation of Trusty Bell: Chopin no Yume (a.k.a. Eternal Sonata) by Kuroi Mimei and I’ve got to say—I’m a little weirded out. More »